Re-evaluation of spent nuclear fuel assay data for the Three Mile Island unit 1 reactor and application to code validation》.pdf

Annals of Nuclear Energy 87 (2016) 267–281 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Annals of Nuclear Energy journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/anucene Re-evaluation of spent nuclear fuel assay data for the Three Mile Island unit 1 reactor and application to code validation q I.C. Gauld ⇑, J.M. Giaquinto, J.S. Delashmitt, J. Hu, G. Ilas, T.J. Haverlock, C. Romano Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Destructive radiochemical assay measurements of spent nuclear fuel rod segments from an assembly Received 3 June 2015 irradiated in the Three Mile Island unit 1 (TMI-1) pressurized water reactor have been performed at Accepted 27 August 2015 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Assay data are reported for five samples from two fuel rods of Available online xxxx the same assembly. The TMI-1 assembly was a 15 15 design with an initial enrichment of 4.013 wt% 235U, and the measured samples achieved burnups between 45.5 and 54.5 gigawatt days per metric Keywords: ton of initial uranium (GWd/t). Measurements were performed mainly using inductively coupled plasma Three Mile Island unit 1 reactor mass spectrometry after elemental separation via high performance liquid chromatography. High preci- Spent fuel radiochemical analysis sion measurement